This is a 1997 Fender Stratocaster (Made in Mexico) & I am the original owner. I have taken really good care of it and have upgraded every single component on the guitar. It sounds incredible! The pickups sound like the Fender 57/62 pickups (you can listen to Fender demos online).
There is 1 small nick on the left edge that you can see in the picture. Otherwise, it is in excellent shape. In addition, the frets are also in really good condition as I have not played it much.
MEDIUM ACTION (Please Read)
I took this to a Luthier at a high-end shop for an evaluation. Here are his notes:
- Guitar sounds great
- Frets are in excellent condition
- There is an imperfection with the neck that requires the action to be medium height in order to avoid buzz on the higher frets
It requires medium action due to this neck imperfection. If you want low action (less than 1.6 mm on high E or less that 2mm on low E), it will buzz on the higher frets and you likely won't be happy with this guitar.
The action is currently set to ~1.6 mm on the high E & ~2 mm on the low E there is no buzz and it sounds great!
This is the only reason I have the guitar at a lower price considering all of the upgraded components.
UPGRADES
- Fender Locking tuners
- Callaham Mexican Strat Bridge Assembly (cold rolled steel block, top plate, vintage steel saddles, tremolo strings)
- Tonerider Pure Vintage pickups (sound like the Fender 57/62 pickups)
- Tone Shaper Guitar Wiring Kit (Blender Wiring) with CTS pots, wires, switch & jack
- Graph Tech Tusq XL Nut
- 0.022 Capacitor
- 1000pf Treble bleed
- New 3 ply pickguard with copper shielding
- New string tree
SPECS FROM FENDER FOR MY SERIAL NUMBER (I had to email them as it is not in the lookup tool)
Note: I have replaced everything listed below other than the neck, body and the 3 knobs
FENDER STD STRAT RW CRM / made in 11/1997
- Model Name: Standard Stratocaster®
- Model Number: 013-4600-(Color#) and 013-4602-(Color#)
- Series: Standard Series
- Body: Alder
- Neck: Maple, Modern “C” Shape, (Satin Polyurethane Finish)
- Fingerboard: Rosewood (p/n 013-4600), 9.5” Radius (241 mm)
- Frets: 21 Vintage Style Frets
- Scale Length: 25.5” (648 mm)
- Nut: 1.650” (42 mm)
- Hardware: Chrome
- Machine Heads: Fender®/Ping® Standard Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines
- Bridge: Vintage Style Synchronized Tremolo
- Pickguard: 3-Ply White
- Pickups: 3 Standard Single-Coil Strat® Pickups (Ceramic Magnets)
- Pickup Switching: 5-Position Blade
- Other Features: Vintage Styling
- Source: Mexico
- U.S. MSRP: $527.99
- INTRODUCED: 1/1991
- DISCONTINUED: 1/2006
- WRENCH SIZES: Truss Rod Wrench #0038467000 (3/16” Hex)
- Saddle Height Adjustment Wrench #0050919000 (Hex 1.5mm)
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Listed | 3 months ago |
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